Slumber Party Massacre (1982)

Did you seriously think we would include Slumber Party Massacre II and not the film that made it possible? Come on.

If you’re looking for a quintessential ’80s movie — not a glitzy Hollywood movie, but a movie that really captures the feeling of going to a sweaty, dusty high school in the unregulated ’80s — this might be your best bet.

Directed by Amy Holden Jones and written by author and feminist activist Rita Mae Brown, it was financed by the late, great Roger Corman, who also executive produced the second and third films in the trilogy.